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The involvement of several fields of study or professional expertise in the same work.
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- research multidisciplinarity
- multidisciplinarity in education
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The project's multidisciplinarity brought historians, engineers, and ecologists to the same table.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Writing functions: methodology, synthesis, explanation. Commonness: uncommon. Established English with independent research use; not a spelling variant of interdisciplinarity.
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